Opponents of General Pinochet gain ground in their legal battle to ensure he stands trial.
Spanish newspapers report what they say are details from the confidential medical report on General Pinochet.
They say Gen Pinochet sought the support of his closest military allies to overthrow the results.
In 1981, Chilean President Augusto Pinochet was sworn in for an eight-year term as president.
The arguments in the Pinochet case are complex, and have set lawyers buzzing on three continents.
It may be that the arrest of General Pinochet is justifiable in international law.
True, even without a trial General Pinochet could still be questioned about the accusations against him.
Or is international law defined in such a way that it applies only to General Pinochet?
For now, the Pinochet affair has united Chile's right-wing parties and divided the centre-left.
One of the judges sitting in the current Pinochet hearing is a retired Law Lord.
The funeral was interrupted at one point by Capt Pinochet, who defended his grandfather.
In exchange, General Augusto Pinochet and his otherwise modernising ministers left the system alone.
His ideas, applied by his students, worked for Chile but he was not Pinochet's adviser.
General Pinochet is awarded a symbolic Oscar by protesters who say he feigned sickness to avoid trial.
Chile, when it made the transition to democracy, elected not to prosecute former dictator General Augusto Pinochet.
Foes of General Augusto Pinochet rejoiced that Britain's Law Lords rejected his claims to immunity from extradition.
Gen Pinochet's body was cremated late on Tuesday and his ashes will be given to his family.
Strongman Augusto Pinochet removed price controls, privatized government companies and the social security system, and increased trade.
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Mr Pinochet remains under house arrest in Wentworth, Surrey, while several countries attempt to challenge Mr Straw's decision.
Augusto Pinochet's rule, authorities exhumed former Chilean President Salvador Allende earlier this year.
General Pinochet introduced unilateral tariff cuts, and the democratic governments of the centre-left that followed have continued the policy.
Around 150 former officers are being investigated by Baltasar Garzon, the same Spanish judge who is pursuing General Pinochet.
However, the family maintained that Captain Pinochet had already been considering leaving the army because he had felt uncomfortable.
General Pinochet's arrest in London a year ago has helped Mr Lavin, too.
General Pinochet, at 83, could easily claim to suffer from the same amnesia.
London's move against Pinochet was not the culmination of any carefully thought-out ideas to revise centuries-old traditions of diplomatic immunity.
Britain's Home Secretary halted extradition proceedings against General Augusto Pinochet after concluding that he was not fit to stand trial.
The Spanish judge, Baltazar Garzon, pursued the extradition to Spain of General Pinochet while the former Chilean dictator was in London.
Pinochet was a rough guy, a bad guy, and yet another thief at the public till, as it turned out.
Garzon is a well-known crusading human rights judge who ordered the arrest of ex-Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in London in 1998.
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